Special Issue "Sustainable Economic Growth and Renewable Transition in the Period of COVID-19"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 March 2022.

Special Issue Editor

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will focus on renewable energy supplies and COVID-19 measures based on official statistics on energy and the spread of the virus around the world. It is apparent that various restrictive strategies have changed sustainable demand for renewable energy and led to a drop in economic growth, as well as slowing the growth of COVID-19 infections in 2020. It is unknown to what extent the observed slowdown in spread from March 2020 to December 2020 was due to the impact of policies as opposed to interactions between the virus and the external environment. This Special Issue calls for papers about the interactions important for ensuring an in-depth analysis of renewable energy strategies that enable young researchers to get involved and be fully on board for the future directions of renewable energy strategies in these countries. The formulation of a renewable energy sector’s strategy requires a set of factors to be investigated through multi-dimensional approaches to ensure that the energy mix is addressed well; to recognize a viable strategic roadmap (realized, shared, learning, false, and hidden types of strategy); to align the nature of strategies with scope (competitive strategy, corporate strategy, business strategy, functional strategy, and operating strategy); to define models of application (entrepreneurial model, adaptive model, planning model, etc.); and, finally, to realize an effective relationship among the pillars of sustainability (environmental, technical, economic, institutional, and social). These challenges are related to technology and also environmental, societal, economic, and financial tools as well as process management; these are all of interest for this Special Issue.

Dr. Alexey Mikhaylov
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • economic growth
  • sustainability
  • renewable energy
  • financial markets
  • energy

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Sustainability of Management Decisions in a Digital Logistics Network
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9289; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169289 - 18 Aug 2021
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Globalization has given a powerful impetus to the development of international commercial activity and logistics management systems taking full advantage of cross-border networking. The solution lies at the intersection of information technologies, technical means of machine-to-machine (M2M) interaction, mobile high-speed networks, geolocation, cloud [...] Read more.
Globalization has given a powerful impetus to the development of international commercial activity and logistics management systems taking full advantage of cross-border networking. The solution lies at the intersection of information technologies, technical means of machine-to-machine (M2M) interaction, mobile high-speed networks, geolocation, cloud services, and a number of international standards. The current trend towards creating digital logistics platforms has set a number of serious challenges for developers. The most important requirement is the condition of sustainability of the obtained solutions with respect to disturbances in the conditions of logistics activities caused not only by market uncertainty but also by a whole set of unfavorable factors accompanying the transportation process. Within the framework of the presented research, the problem of obtaining the conditions for the stability of solutions obtained on the basis of mathematical models is set. At the same time, the processes of transferring not only discrete but also continuous material flows through complex structured networks are taken into account. This study contains the results of the analysis of the stability of solutions of differential systems of various types that simulate the transfer processes in network media. Initial boundary value problems for evolutionary equations and differential-difference systems are relevant in logistics, both for the discrete transportation of a wide range of goods and for the quasi-continuous transportation of, for example, liquid hydrocarbons. The criterion for the work of a logistics operator is the integral functional. For the mathematical description of the transport process of continuous and discrete media, a wide class of integrable functions are used, which adequately describe the transport of media with a complex internal rheological structure. Full article
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Renewable Energy Deployment and COVID-19 Measures for Sustainable Development
Sustainability 2021, 13(8), 4418; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084418 - 15 Apr 2021
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The main goal of this study is to evaluate the impact of restrictive measures introduced in connection with COVID-19 on consumption in renewable energy markets. The study will be based on the hypothesis that similar changes in human behavior can be expected in [...] Read more.
The main goal of this study is to evaluate the impact of restrictive measures introduced in connection with COVID-19 on consumption in renewable energy markets. The study will be based on the hypothesis that similar changes in human behavior can be expected in the future with the further spread of COVID-19 and/or the introduction of additional quarantine measures around the world. The analysis also yielded additional results. The strongest reductions in energy generation occurred in countries with a high percentage (more than 80%) of urban population (Brazil, USA, the United Kingdom and Germany). This study uses two models created with the Keras Long Short-Term Memory (Keras LSTM) Model, and 76 and 10 parameters are involved. This article suggests that various restrictive strategies reduced the sustainable demand for renewable energy and led to a drop in economic growth, slowing the growth of COVID-19 infections in 2020. It is unknown to what extent the observed slowdown in the spread from March 2020 to September 2020 due to the policy’s impact and not the interaction between the virus and the external environment. All renewable energy producers decreased the volume of renewable energy market supply in 2020 (except China). Full article
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